NEW YORK (AFP) - Contact tracing is supposed to be one of the key weapons in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and for months authorities in the United States have touted the need for an 'army' of tracers to allow the economy to reopen safely.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - Contact tracing is supposed to be one of the key weapons in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and for months authorities in the United States have touted the need for an"army" of tracers to allow the economy to reopen safely.
Experts estimate that the US as a whole - which has seen more than 84,000 Covid-19 deaths, by far the most of any country - will need at least 100,000 contact tracers. But it is just this week that renowned Johns Hopkins University medical school - in partnership with New York state - has launched a free online course that potential tracers would have to complete.But New York's tracing programme is not set to begin before early June, when officials say they will have trained 1,000 agents.
"It's not a very short and simple conversation," Prof Chan said of contact tracers' experiences in Massachusetts."It requires a lot of discussion to alleviate the anxiety of being tested positive, and go about the details of what it means."
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